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REVERSIBLE SEAT.

No. 341,319. Patented May 4, 1886.-

WITNESSES 1.7V VEJV'TOR Emmy,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADNIRAM J. COOKE, OF ROCHESTER, NEXV YORK.

REVERSIBLE SEAT.

SPECllPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,319, dated May 4, 1886.

Application filed September 28 1FS5. Serial No. 178,412. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

it known that I, ADNIRAM J. CooKE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of -Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reversible Seats; and i do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a side view of my improved reversible seat. Fig. 2 is'a similar View showing it reversed. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view showing the inner side of one of the end pieces of the frame and of the end of the seat. Fig. 41- is a front view of the seat; and Fig. 5 is a side view of one of the sector-shaped frames J J, which will be hereinafter described.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to reversible seats, especially intended for car-seats; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings, the letters A A indicate the end frames of the seat, which frames are connected at their lower ends and at their middles by means of longitudinal rods B B, and at a distance from their bases by rods 0 C, which form foot-rests for the seats adj oining the seat.

The upper ends of the end frames are pro vided with the usual arm-rests, D, and the widening upper portions of the end frames are formed with segmental slots E E, having their center at the middles of the upper edges of the end frames, and extending from the upper edges to near the central lines of the frames. The lower ends of these slots are formed with down wardly-proj ecting notches F, and are also preferably formed at points above the notches F with similar notches, G, to admit of adj ustment of the chairseat, as will be hereinafter described.

The seat consists of two widely-diverging \l-shaped end frames or pieces, H H, which are connected near their ends and at their apices by longitudinal rods I, and sectorshaped frames J J are secured with their segmental portions K to the middles of the outer sides of the V-shaped frames, while the radial arms L L of the frames are connected at the center of the sector and formed with a V- shaped slot, M, at the said center.

Headed bolts N N project outward from the ends of the segmental portions of the sectorshaped frames and slide in the segmental slots in the end frames, and the sector shaped frames of the swinging seat are pivoted upon bolts 0, secured in the end frames at the centers of the segmental slots and passing through the V-shaped slots at the centers of the sectorshaped frames.

The narrow ends or points at of the V- shaped slots M point toward the segmental portions K of the sector-shaped frames J, as will be more clearly seen by reference to Fig. 5 of the drawings, and it will be seen that as the seat is swung, with its bolts sliding in the segmental slots in the end frames, when one pair of these bolts arrives at the lower end of the slots at the notches, the seat may be depressed, so as to cause the bolts to enter the notches, the V-shaped slots sliding with one of their arms upon the pivotal bolts, so as to allow the seat to be depressed, the seat resting with .its ends upon one of two pairs of lugs, P, upon the inside of the side frames. In this manner it will be seen that what is seat when the seat is in one position will be back when the seat is reversed, and vice versa, so that equal wear will be gotten out of both seat and back, and the end pieces of the seat being V- shaped, or, rather, curved, the seat portion or back may be all covered with one piece of fabric, which will save labor in upholstering the seat. This shape will also add to the comfort of the person sitting in the seat, and the seat may be adjusted to different angles of inclination by adjusting the sliding bolts in the different notches.

The foot-rests may in this seat be placed comparatively higher than in the usual construction of reversible car-seats, which will also add to the comfort of the person sitting in the seat, enabling him to take a comfortable and easy position, the swinging curved or V- shaped seat-frame occupying less room than a stationary seat and a swinging back, and consequently allowing the foot-rest bars to be placed farther up upon the end frames.

The seat may very easily be tilted, all that is necessary for tilting it being to lift the seat slightly, so as to raise the sliding bolts out of their notches, the V-shapcd slots at the centers of the sector-shaped frames sliding upon the pivotal bolts with one of their arms, when the seat may be easily tilted, and will, by its own weight, fall into position, with the sliding bolts resting in the notches at the ends of the segmental slots.

It follows that although the seat is especially adapted for railroad-carriages, it may be used wherever a reversible seat may be desired, and it may of course likewise be of sufficient width for more than two persons, or it may be only of sufficient width for one person, as the occasion may require it.

Suitable means for locking the seat in place may be provided, although it is not necessary to provide any means for holding the sliding bolts in place in the notches, the weight of the seat and of the person sitting in the seat forcing the said bolts into the notches; but in railroad -"carriages or other public places it may be desirable to have locking means for 30 securing the seats in a uniform position.

I am aware that it is not new to construct reversible seats to swing upon a central pivot, so as to make the sides act alternately as back and seat, and I do not claim such construetion, broadly; but

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a reversible seat, the combination, with wide topped frames having two segmental slots near their upper ends, each of said slots havinganotch at itslower end, of apin project fling through and sliding in each of said slots,

Witnesses:

RALPH BUTLER, MARTIN V. SAYLES. 

